Oxide Molecular Beam Epitaxy Group

Research

The goal of our research is to address some key open questions in HTS physics:

• What is the dimensionality of the HTS phenomenon?
• What are the spin and charge of free carriers?
• What is the nature of the superconducting transition?
• What is the role of charge stripes (if any) in the HTS state?
• What is the nature of the overdoped metallic state – a Fermi liquid?
• What is the ‘glue’ (the bosons) responsible for electron pairing?
• What is the mechanism of the Giant Proximity Effect (GPE)?

Our approach to this goal is to:

• utilize Molecular Beam Epitaxy (MBE) synthesis to fabricate atomically smooth HTS thin films, multilayers, superlattices, and combinatorial libraries;
• manufacture various HTS devices and nano-structures, and
• study the transport and other physical properties in
  • SIN, SIS, and SNS HTS junctions;
  • HTS nanolayers, nanowires, nanorings and nanodots; and
  • combinatorial libraries of overdoped HTS films (in the quest for purported Quantum Critical Points).

Last Modified: January 31, 2008
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